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How poetic you are, she said. I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Poetic
Notion
Highest
Poetry
Form
Self
Deception

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